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A non-lethal active body which is equipped with a detonation-operated electrical pulse generator, and which is especially deployable as an article of submunition. The pulse generator is a piezo-generator having a detonation-operated inductive current amplifier and a capacitive pulse shaper connected

A non-lethal active body which is equipped with a detonation-operated electrical pulse generator, and which is especially deployable as an article of submunition. The pulse generator is a piezo-generator having a detonation-operated inductive current amplifier and a capacitive pulse shaper connected to the output thereof.

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1. A non-lethal electromagnetic active body (9) constituting an article of munition, said active body being microwave disruptive so as to produce disruptive microwaves, including a detonation-operated electrical pulse generator (11), said generator comprising a piezo generator (11); a detonation-ope

1. A non-lethal electromagnetic active body (9) constituting an article of munition, said active body being microwave disruptive so as to produce disruptive microwaves, including a detonation-operated electrical pulse generator (11), said generator comprising a piezo generator (11); a detonation-operated inductive current amplifier (31) connected to said piezo generator (11); a capacitive pulse shaper (51) being connected to an output of said current amplifier (31), said pulse shaper (51) includes a coaxial cable (53) including a pair of longitudinally and traversely connected high-voltage switches (57), said pulse shaper supplies a broad-band radiating antenna (52); said coaxial cable (53) being equipped with a running time-tie cable (56) for the transforming of a unipolar pulse into a shortened pair of bipolar pulses. 2. The active body according to claim 1, wherein said coaxial cable (53) is supplied with pulses from a storage capacitor (55) through a high-voltage switch (54). 3. The active body according to claim 1, wherein said antenna (52) has the electrically-supplied structure thereof arranged within an insulating gas volume (59). 4. The active body according to claim 3, wherein said insulating gas volume (59) is formed within a radome (58) which is constructed as a balloon extractable from a storage space (60) proximate the antenna 52. 5. The active body according to claim 1, wherein said piezo generator (11) includes a tubular shell (12), and at least one piezo-crystal (13) being arranged in said shell between a supporting mass (14), a detonator (23) and shock absorbers (16). 6. The active body according to claim 5, wherein the detonator (23) is arranged in an activating pot-shaped mass (15) in front of a bottom (22) of the shell (12), said mass (15) being closed facing toward the piezo-crystal (13), and said detonator (23) is triggerable through a passageway (29) penetrating through the bottom 22. 7. The active body according to claim 1, wherein said current amplifier (31) possesses an inductivity (21) which reduces during supplying current from said piezo-generator (11). 8. The active body according to claim 7, wherein said current amplifier (31) possesses a hollow truncated cone (36) within a coil (32), said cone (36) being filled with detonation material (43) in the region of a smaller cross-sectional base surface of said cone. 9. The active body according to claim 8, wherein said piezo-generator (11) is retained in the region of the largest cross-section of the hollow truncated cone (36) and is equipped with a triggering passageway (29) which is open facing towards the interior of the hollow truncated cone (36). 10. The active body according to claim 8, wherein radially oppositely located regions of the coil (32) and of the hollow-truncated cone (36) are designed as parasitic flashover sections. 11. The active body according to claim 8, wherein a plurality of capacitances (20) having variable inductivities (21) are connected to said coil (32) and are arranged about the periphery of the piezo-generator (11). 12. The active body according to claim 1, wherein said body comprises a deployable article of submunition.